Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. He was making more and more of a name for himself as a serious actor, and even wrote and performed in a one-man play on Sir Harry Lauder, one of his great heroes. His last two performances were at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre respectively. His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. By 1950 ha had his own radio . When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. The Trouble with Alec, starring Logan in the lead role, which was first broadcast on BBC-1 Scotland on Thursday evenings (9.09.25pm) from 11 November to 16 December 1965, directed by David Bell and produced by Eddie Fraser. In March 2001 Scotland's show business stars led a stage spectacular, "A Celebration for Jimmy Logan", in his honour at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre, and it was sold out even before the box office opened! There's even less of a trace of David online. Ms Donald and Logan were married for three years, but after they split fought a bitter custody battle over their twin children, Robert and Annabelle. The following year Hurran brought in Max Bygraves, a massive star at the time, who was a big success, but the show was vastly more expensive and the profits dropped. Join our linker program. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info A one-off special edition of The Jimmy Logan Show from the Alhambra was broadcast on the evening of Saturday 14 October 1961. The Jimmy Logan Show, produced by Eddie Fraser and directed by George Inns (who went on to work with the Black and White Minstrels), was broadcast on St Andrew's Day, Saturday 30 November (8.08.50pm). He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. Initially a hard-working team with under-the-radar buzz . His parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, were a Glasgow music-hall double act. Logan, starring with Jack Radcliffe and Eve Boswell, held the record number of performances of the famed Five Past Eight shows staged each summer at the Alhambra Theatre. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. Some people said she chose the name Logan after sticking a pin in a newspaper race sheet and coming up with a horse called 'Triumphant Logan' Logan, 19. I have heard better singers than Jimmy quite a number. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. Day Two in the house was basically a detail by detail unpacking of what was different about each twin. We encourage you to . He had a quadruple heart bypass operation. One had a noticeable scar on their forehead, the other had a tattoo on their ankle, one was right-handed and the other left-handed. Most of the money went to the people running the musical, and not the people running the Metropole. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. His first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. The trappings of success followed rapidly, and while in his twenties he was living in a wing of Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, had his own Rolls-Royce with personalised number plate, and flew his own plane. But it was a big success and they were soon signed to perform it at the Glasgow Pavilion, beginning a wonderful career.[26]. I'd rather do a wee bit, go off, come back on and go off." But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. In the 1986, at the behest of Frank Dunlop, he took his one-man show about Sir Harry Lauder to the Edinburgh Festival, playing, not inappropriately, at the town hall in nearby Portobello, where the tang of the sea wafted in on the performance. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. He appeared in Scotland and England in Harvey, The Entertainer, Death of a Salesman, Comedians, Uncle Vanya and many other stage plays. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. He thought he was a well enough known name to take a touring show round Scotland, but he ended up playing to half-empty theatres. It did not start well: The first six shows were a disaster, and the script was so bad I was getting letters saying: "You stink," and "Get off the air ya big balloon". How do we create a person's profile? Theatre was the major form of entertainment when Logan came to prominence in the 1950s, but it was clear to him that television was going to play a major part in the future after it arrived in Scotland (in 1952) and he went to America to study commercial television. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. The Calum Kennedy Show opened the Metropole, followed by the gala opening performance of Wedding Fever on 1 September 1964, directed by Eddie Fraser, with a cast including Marillyn Gray, Paul Young, Stanley Baxter's sister Alice Dale, and Morag Hood. We were fed a diet of comedians who, while brilliant at their craft, were somewhat foreign to me [] they were all very funny in their own right but tended to talk about things I knew little or nothing about. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. "It was my chance to get into the lucrative management side of things, and with my name and Sam's writing ability, we thought we would make a good team.". In 1993 he received the Gulliver Award for excellence in the theatre. Logan then discovered that he had lost his audience. Something went wrong, please try again later. Shortly after joining the organisation he was able to afford a ten-room house in Dowanhill in the west end of Glasgow for 1,500; he bought a Rolls-Royce with the registration plate 'JL10', which he employed a chauffeur to drive; and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself.[13]. Because how fun are identical twins. When Helensburgh Heritage Trust was set up the same year, he became its first Honorary President, and he contributed a piece on another great entertainer from Helensburgh, Jack Buchanan, another of his great heroes, for the Trusts bicentenary book, 200 Years of Helensburgh. His career instantly blossomed and he soon started a ten-year run in the famous "Five Past Eight" show at the Alhambra Theatre in the city. While he was best known for driving three different cars, all of which were not vans, he did have access to other kinds of vehicles because he worked transport the brickyard, according to the Fall Line. The Jimmy Logan Theatre Hour was subsequently born, opening with Logan sitting behind his desk welciming the TV audience on their visit to the theatre. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. He began the arrangements to produce videotapes to be made available to newly diagnosed cancer sufferers to console them, but he died on Good Friday, April 13, 2001 in the Health Care International Hospital (now the Golden Jubilee Hospital) in Clydebank. The team of researchers had been performing an ongoing study of twins, hoping to discover if separation had any role in the nature vs. nurture debate. Although he was principally known as a comedian and entertainer in his earlier days, he nevertheless showed his abilities as a dramatic actor in his first film "Floodtide" at the age of 21. His family, in the 1930s and 1940s, toured the small music halls of Scotland and Northern Ireland and ran seasons at the Metropole, Glasgow and in the Theatre, Paisley, where Logan became house manager for the family. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Jimmy Logan (James Short), entertainer, born April 4 1927; died April 13 2001, Scots comedian whose warmth and sincerity shone through his performances on stage and screen, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [8] As a result, he became a household name in Scotland, but a big slump in the British film industry meant he received no further film offers at the time. On Wednesday's instalment of the Channel 4 property show, Julie and Peter enlisted Lee's help to find their dream holiday home in South West France. On 10 February 1957 he appeared on the bill of Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium' (ATV) along with Guy Mitchell and The Beverley Sisters. Crawford believed the quality that had taken Logan to the top was his charm: I must admit that I have seen consistently funnier comedians on the Scottish stage than Jimmy not many, but a few. Jimmy was delighted as he believed them to be his first children and three years later the family moved to part of 152 East Clyde Street in Helensburgh (pictured left). Enjoy this article on thw Jim Twins? He was joined initially by two other young actors, Eddie Fraser and Primrose Milligan, and a couple of members of the Scottish Variety Orchestra. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. Glasgow salon owner visiting Turkish home after earthquake shares heartbreaking video of devastation. [], In the early days there would be about eight different programmes in the 22-week season, and we had a lot of gags and sketches to fill each one up. The following Thursday a memorial service was held for him in Glasgow Cathedral once again he had a packed house. The latest incarnation of The Jimmy Logan Show, a variety show with songs, laughter and special guests, was a lot more successful than his previous series of nearly a decade earlier. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. Logan and his Fife Past Eight co-star Jack Radcliffe were original shareholders in STV, each contributing 1,000. An extensive archive of his personal papers and performance ephemera is now held by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archives. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. His aunt, Ella Logan, was a Broadway singer who starred in the original Finian's Rainbow, and his sister, Annabelle, is jazz singer Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" The squad eventually learns that the girl twin, Lindsay, was born a boy but a botched circumcision led to her parents making her a girl at the recommendation of the sex therapist the twins are currently seeing. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." STV used the advert for about a year, and showed it to potential advertisers as an example of the best type of advertising.[31]. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. In the 1940s he was a leading light in his family's show, which he left to become a pantomime performer in his own right. . One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. Jimmy Logan (19282001) was a Scottish comedian, actor, theatrical producer, impresario and director, who was a frequent broadcaster on both radio and television in the post-war era. . The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. In Scotland, and occasionally elsewhere in Britain, Jimmy Logan appeared in 35 pantomimes, usually as the dame, and when variety went into decline he switched with ease to straight acting. His other catchphrase was "Smashing' in't it". He took on a considerable amount of responsibility at a young age: as well as playing the accordion and acting as the comedian's 'feed' in sketches, he would put the show on, pay the performers, and make sure nothing went wrong. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." Face masks were introduced in schools because Boris Johnson was told it was 'not worth an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. His father decided it was not a good idea for his son to share the same surname because the audience might think they were not getting their money's worth, and so from 1943 James Short became 'Jim Logan'. Listening as a young man, the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was struck by how Logan made people laugh using a strong Glasgow accent: I have been brought up, like lots of people of my generation, listening to BBC Radio and early television. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. Logan ad-libbed in front of the curtain to the 2,000-strong audience for a while and then asked the orchestra leader to find the theatre carpenter, who had worked there all his life and was about to retire. . During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. When his divorce to Grace came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. In 1964 Logan bought the New Metropole Theatre at St George's Cross, Glasgow for 80,000 (not to be confused with the original Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street which burned down in 1961) and renamed it 'Jimmy Logan's Metropole Theatre'. He staged an adaptation of Oor Wullie, the Sunday Post comic strip character, for the Dundee stage. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". His first marriage of 21 years standing had already failed in 1969, and he believed that his financial problems played a large part in the failure of his second marriage. In 1988 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama made him a Fellow and, as a consequence, in his words "in a way I became respectable"! Few things were put together in advance. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? Five thousand would be subtracted every time a housemate broke a rule. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. Through fellow comedian Jack Milroy, Logan met Sam Cree, who came from the north of Ireland and wrote for a great Irish comedian and actor James Young, and the pair clicked. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. They ended up walking away with $836,000 which was the amount left over after the various subtractions along the way. Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. He left school at 14 with no qualifications, but already certain that his future lay in the world of entertainment. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. [18], From January to April 1955 he was given his own weekly radio series on the Scottish Home Service, The Jimmy Logan Show, which featured a resident cast of Aileen Wilson, Marillyn Gray, and Peter Croft, along with the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra.[19]. His belief in himself was justified, as his natural flair for comedy was so great that by the age of 19 he was principal comedian at the Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street, Glasgow. He was also helped by sympathetic neighbours, especially Angela Mackenzie who lived in the east wing of the house she later became his driver and dresser during his continuing career. He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. Milo, 14, Iggy, 12, and Scout, 6, appear to be based in Avalon with mum who late last year re-married her partner Hayden Guppy. Jimmy was distraught, but with typical courage bounced back, helped by his sister, the famous jazz singer, Annie Ross, who flew over from the USA to be with him for several months. But it was merely a stay of execution. Data Provided By When men got home from their work at night they just wanted to sit and watch television and that television was soon in colour, a wonderful novelty. [17], Logan made his TV debut on 4 March 1953 when he compered Cabaret from Scotland, Scotland's first televised cabaret, live from the Central Hotel, Glasgow, and broadcast across the BBC-tv network. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. The secret of Five Past Eight was that it offered the glamour of what you might find in Paris or London alongside the unique Scottish humour you found nowhere else. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. James Jim Springer, of Piqua Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. 13 April 2001 (aged 73) Jimmy Logan, (4 April 1928 - 13 April 2001), born James Short in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland was an Entertainer, theatre owner, producer, director, and actor. Along with his twin brother Jey, Jimmy has caused nightmares for the WWE Tag Team division for years. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. Slavery plaque on Scots memorial could go after plan approved for its removal. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. Greg used his half of the winnings wisely, becoming a pub owner in Newcastle. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . As always you can unsubscribe at any time. And led to the breakdown of his marriage to this second wife Gina a few years later. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. Bryan Sears was brought in as producer instead but he did not get on with Logan and the show was, in Logan's words, 'an unqualified disaster. They also starred in the long-running Five Past Eight show at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Lohan soared to stardom after her performances as twins Hallie Parker and Annie James, who were separated as babies, then met at summer camp more than a decade later. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall 'discovered Andrew Buchan's affair from racy lingerie purchase'. At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. 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